Trio who drowned bank

A forensic audit of Yes Bank’s deals with the trio — Ambani, Wadhawan and Chandra — is likely to reveal many more skeletons in the closet AT INDIABULLS Finance Centre, a commercial complex of three skyscrapers in Mumbai’s unkempt, crammed suburb of Lower Parel, Yes Bank’s headquarters is eerily quiet. After the fourth largest private bank […]

Funny girls

Though they are not as popular as male stand-ups, women comedians are creating their own ripples with jokes about male hypocrisy and patriarchy, among other themes WE ARE living in a time when comedians have more social media following than some film stars. Grover, Zakir Khan and Biswa Kalyan are so much admired that their […]

Cops terrorise riot-hit areas

Police are questioning the injured who have registered medico-legal cases, arresting Muslims who guarded a temple and detaining men randomly IT HAS been more than two weeks since Delhi witnessed gruesome riots which have left 53 people dead. The violence which broke out on the evening of 24 February and went on till 27th has […]

Heroes in the time of hate

Amidst the communal violence that ensued in North East Delhi, here are some stories that prove humanity still trumps hate in these terrible times AS NORTH East Delhi witnessed the worst riots the Capital has seen since 1984, many lives were lost, houses were burnt down and families were shattered. Amidst all this, people still […]

Surviving hate

The overwhelming sentiment in the riot-hit areas is a feeling of being wronged by the state. Yet communal harmony survives, holding out hope for the future AS THE dead bodies of the victims of the communal clashes in North East Delhi arrived, the family members became inconsolable. Theirs is not a cry of grief but […]

‘They want us to say we burnt our own masjid’

The family of Mohammed Danish claims he was detained for over four days without food or access to a toilet. He was then shifted to a juvenile centre EARLIER THIS week, we received a lead that a 17-year-old boy, Mohammad Danish, had been missing in North East Delhi since February 24. The violence in the […]

Venom of communal hatred spares none

Molested, beaten and in shock, the mothers and minors of North East Delhi relive the day everything changed AL HIND hospital has been inundated with victims of the riots which engulfed North East Delhi from the evening of February 23 to the 27th. In these five hellish days, the hospital in the Muslim-dominated area also […]

‘Please let us give our board exams’

ALONG WITH the destruction of schools, the riots also affected those students who were going to appear for their 10th and 12th Board exams. We met many of those, and their only request was that the government takes cognisance of their situation, delay the exams and provide them with the much-needed course books destroyed in […]